On a plain.

[reddragdiva]

bmovie was very nice, thank you. I got there at 7:30pm and bluehelen kindly let me in to change out of my work clothes in the little boys' room. arkady got there at eight. We left about half past eleven, both utterly buggered; I think my brane was still work-fried and I remained incapable of conversation beyond the "buh. Day at work. Kill job. Gruh. Fancy you heaps. Fabulous breasts darling." level.

I communicated mostly via camera, getting about 1.2 gigabytes of shots. Nice photonerding with wechsler, who is having trouble getting his l33t EOS 350D to give as nice clubbing shots as an Ixus. I say what? He got what I expect will be nice shots of Arkady and I. I'm getting thinner — waist clincher up to sixth hole out of seven — but the exercise means I'm not scrawny with it. Which is nice.

I was particularly pleased to see spikeylady (who looked SO GORGEOUS), jozafeen (who really must write some of those tales up for anonymous publication), eyeliner297 (who was going for it with her own Ixus of Doom), _proserpina_ and littlelightbulb, webcowgirl (present in body, brain probably still on a plane above the Atlantic) and secretlondon (who arrived literally as I was leaving, dammit!). And I failed to recognise Pepsi in her blue makeup. How embarrassing. But I LOVES YOU ALL. Pics up this weekend I hope, though the web server is still in flux so expect hiccups later.

I got my driver's licence in the post this morning. FEAR ME. Today we have two house appointments.

Comments

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Any photos of ewtikins?

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Aah I wanted to see full costume, I only saw bits but it looked cool.

[reddragdiva]

Sadly not!

[sparksoflight.livejournal.com]

*waves* Ooh, I are namechecked!

I had fun. :D

[notintheseheels.livejournal.com]

Lovely to see you, darling.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I've not tried club situations but my 350D does a good job in limited light with 50mm and 85mm f/1.8 lenses. The original kit lens and the 17-85 zoom just do not compare.

When things get really dim you can deliberately underexpose, compensate in software, and still get results at least good enough for the web. Each stop you steal this way halves the information the camera gives you to play with, due to the linear response of the sensor.

Canon offer a further stop's worth with the f/1.2 lenses at the same focal lengths but they cost the earth.

[reddragdiva]

Wechsler said the problem was his expectations from doing really high quality high resolution daytime sunlight shots. In a nightclub, you're trying to capture drunk and silly people in action, so you take what you can get in terms of light; shape resolution is everything, chroma is eye candy on top.

[thegreatgonzo.livejournal.com]

I manage to get some good hack shots on a 300D at Batfink I even get the odd "good" shot of the posed Gothics.

[(Anonymous)]

Just missed you; we got there a little before midnight.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

That were me, who did the anonymous comment.

[jozafeen.livejournal.com]

Fab to see you mister and good news about the hunt for a new home - looks like the early departure from clubbing paid off!

[reddragdiva]

Heh. After last week, THE DEAL ISN'T DONE TILL THE DEAL IS DONE.

[baralier.livejournal.com]

Completely unrelated to the post but I've just been reading about proposed closures for The Dev (admittedly they're a couple of months old). Any idea what's happening/happened?

[reddragdiva]

They got their takings back up and the brewery isn't threatening to shut them down of late, AFAIK.